From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 22:03:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA29821 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:03:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA29808 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:03:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA25502; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:57:47 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604040627.PAA25502@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: NFS Mounts and Symbolic Links? To: deanj@region0.wpafb.af.mil (Dean, Jeffrey D) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:57:47 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, schroerj@region0.wpafb.af.mil In-Reply-To: from "Dean, Jeffrey D" at Apr 3, 96 05:14:23 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dean, Jeffrey D stands accused of saying: > I have created a handy directory with several symbolic links inside it. > After it exporting through NFS, I have come to find out that these symbolic > links are not being shared. Is their a way to correct this without > mount_null'ing these drives (since mount_null'ing is supposed to be > dangerous, and slightly unstable)? -OR- Is their a better way all-around to > do what I'm trying? The symbolic links aren't working because either (a) they have absolute paths in them, and the paths they reference don't exist on the client, or (b) they point outside the exported filesystem. You need to work out which is the problem before looking for a solution. How about some more details? > Jeffrey D. Dean -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[